When using TemplaVoila, the template data structure is mapped to the HTML template file by pathes like
body[1]/INNER|div.grey[1] div.content_area[1] div.left_column[1] div.left_content[1]
while this is obviously as precise as possible, it is not very effective, because every change to an DOM element above the mapped one would break the mapping, which happens quite frequently and is totally pointless. I like to patch TemplaVoila to rely on the last matching path segments only, which will suffice in almost any condition, as my HTML is always tagged by id's or classes on the mapped elements.
For the start, it would be cool if it would maybe just use
.left_content[1]
instead of the path shown above. But maybe it don't work in a matching fashion like CSS selectors do.
I just can't figure out where to start. Can this be done by TS config? Are changes to TemplaVoila's PHP needed? Can a new extension do this?
The mapping does not rely on the full path, but tag name and id, if the element mapped has an id attribute set.
Having an (even unique) class attribute only forces TemplaVoila to map the absolute element path, as classes are not necessarily unique.
So no special configuration is needed, if all mapped elements have unique id attributes set.